SS I-20 is sighted by escort I-20 bottoming out .... DMS Long fails to find sub, continues to search... DMS Dorsey fails to find sub and abandons search DMS Long attacking submerged sub .... DMS Long is out of ASW ammo DMS Long is out of ASW ammo DMS Long is out of ASW ammo DMS Long is out of ASW ammo DMS Long is out of ASW ammo DMS Long fails to find sub, continues to search... DMS Long fails to find sub, continues to search... DMS Long fails to find sub, continues to search... DMS Long fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub

10 Support Section troops lost from landing craft during unload of 4th Draft B/A Div /3 Engineer Vehicle lost in surf during unload of 1st Mobile Engr Rgt 10 Support Section troops lost from landing craft during unload of 4th Draft B/A Div /5 10 Support Section troops lost in surf during unload of 4th Draft B/A Div /6 10 Support Section troops lost in surf during unload of 4th Draft B/A Div /6 10 Support Section troops lost in surf during unload of 4th Draft B/A Div /6

This is a fairly interesting turn. The battle for Java has clearly begun, with the first serious air strike today (following a technical sweep yesterday). The invasion of the Andaman islands began. A follow up attack occurs on Tulagi. IJN Tone managed to evade enemy surface forces twice - and at least survived the day - in spite of extensive damage and fires from yesterday. Her DD consort wasn't so lucky. The Japanese noticed the raid out of the jungle on Luzon and are pounding the raiders from the air. The Chinese managed to get the better of an artillery exchange - never mind fewer guns. The fight for central China is anything but over.

It is a semi-secret from opposite sides, but both sides lost a cruiser today from the battle two days ago - sunk after reaching port - both with huge numbers of fires raging. Both report being sunk by 8 inch shells of the other side.

The air battle for Batavia was worse than it looked like - putting the Japanese a hundred planes ahead in the air exchange rate - and decimating the only large and somewhat effective bomber force the Allies had in play.

A fighter trap laid at Batavia was somewhat successful - but failed to save the airfield. Lack of fighter cover in China was even less successful saving an airfield there. Dutch B-10s still cannot hit the broadside of a barn - even at low altitude.

This was the first good day for the Allies in air combat in some time, and sub minelaying at Rabaul also paid off. On the other hand, Japanese submarines remain the plague they have always been. The Allies lost a big tanker, surely, after it took four fish!

14 troops of a IJA A LMG Section lost from landing craft during unload of 4th Draft B/B Div 14 troops of a IJA A LMG Section lost from landing craft during unload of 4th Draft B/B Div 75mm T41 Inf Gun accidentally lost during unload of 4th Draft B/B Div /3 14 troops of a IJA A LMG Section lost from landing craft during unload of 4th Draft B/B Div /4 10 Support Section troops accidentally lost during unload of 4th Draft B/B Div /4 10 Support Section troops accidentally lost during unload of 4th Draft B/B Div /7

Several minor battles - one didn't quite happen in Burma as AI gave it to the Japanese for free - another came off but is a day late - airborne assault failed to execute yesterday at Bassein Burma - Manado Fell to a brigade assault - and the Chinese front line fell in South China to a division scale attack. Allied bombers did manage to score well today - the force is somewhat recovered from a single disasterous strike that cost 85 bombers in one shot! Troops are too exhausted to fight well on Western Java, at Bataan and in Central China - so the main battles are yet to come in those areas.

The Japanese at Merak/Serang on the Westernmost tip of Java managed to break out of the beachhead today - with recon elements making it all the way into Batavia (probably not the best place for them to be, but still).

The deployment of a CD regiment to Tulagi is looking smarter and smarter over time: two more ships sunk, two CL beat up. But the troops and critical supplies for the South Seas Detachment got ashore - so the Japanese mission is no longer in doubt.